Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet (21 July 1632 – 9 January 1689) was an
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politician and baronet.
Born at
Fyling Hall, near
Whitby
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in
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, he was the second son of
Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet
Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet (22 July 1600 – 20 November 1657) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1643. He was initially a Parliamentarian but later a Royal ...
and his wife Elizabeth Twysden, daughter of
Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet
Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet (1566–1628) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1628.
Life
Twysden was the son of Roger Twysden, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, and his wife Anne Wyatt, da ...
and
Anne Finch.
Cholmeley succeeded his nephew as
baronet
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in 1665. and was afterwards appointed
Governor of Tangier
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Portuguese Tangier (1471–1661)
English Tangier (1661–1684)
See also
* Timeline of Tangier
*Tangier Garrison
*Tangier Regiment
...
in
Morocco
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by
King Charles II of England
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.
[ From February to August 1679, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) for ]Northampton
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, and from 1685 to 1687 for Thirsk
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Archeological finds indicate there was a settlement in Thirsk aro ...
.
On 19 February 1665, Cholmeley married Lady Anne Compton, oldest daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton
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and Mary Beaumont at Hamerton
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in Huntingdonshire
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.[ They had a daughter, but no son, so with his death the ]baronetcy
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became extinct.
Cholmeley was described by Samuel Pepys
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, as a 'fine, worthy and well-disposed gentleman' with a seeming frustration for the Monarchy. In 1663, in partnership with John Lawson and the Earl of Teviot
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, then governor of Tangier
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, he set about the building of a mole
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harbour, of which he became ultimately the sole contractor. He based the construction in Tangier, on his experiences with the pier
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at Whitby
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From the Middle Ages, Whitby ...
.
References
1632 births
1689 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
People from the Borough of Scarborough
Hugh
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People from English Tangier
English MPs 1679
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Cholmeley baronets
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